"You're like 22 girls in one," might be a reference to [Swift's] recent Red single "22." While the next line, "And none of them know what they're running from," might be a rejoinder to her Dear John lyric about how she'd look back on a relationship, "and regret how I ignored when they said, 'Run as fast as you can.'"

Dresses figure prominently in both songs, too, as does the highly specific imagery of painting a sky. Dear John Swift sings, "You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain."

And Paper Doll Mayer says, "Someone's gonna paint you another sky." Newsflash, bucko: that's happened a few times since you put down the brush.